This was intended as a soundtrack for a stroll around my neighborhood, the Inner Richmond of San Francisco, or just some background for whatever you feel like doing.
Glenn Donaldson
Like that strange, variable mix of fog and sunshine that makes its home there, Inner Richmond is a new album from Glenn Donaldson’s project The Reds, Pinks & Purples that constantly wavers between optimism and melancholy. Made up of five instrumental tracks, it is not the first time Donaldson has dedicated music to this place: There’s also Mountain Lake Park, and in fact most of the group’s release artwork showcases the colorful, simple beauty of the neighborhood’s gardens and architecture. The 8-plus-minute long “Evening at Land’s End” works as a companion piece to the title track from last year’s Summer at Land’s End. It’s slow and seemingly simple but deep with feeling, perhaps like the network of trails at the city’s end, leading nowhere but to some peace.
